verpassen
Meaning in English: to miss
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Diesen Film solltest du nicht verpassen!
You shouldn't miss this film!
Forms of verpassen in the top 5,000
German verbs change their ending with the person and tense, and each form is counted on its own. These forms of verpassen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe den Zug schon wieder verpasst!
I've missed the train again!
How common is verpassen?
verpassen is number 3,950 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words. Its most frequent form is verpasst (#3,930).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,946etlichequite a few, numerous
- 3,947vertrittrepresents, stands in for
- 3,948problemloswithout problems, easily
- 3,949psychischemental, psychological
- 3,950verpassento miss
- 3,951Gesetzeslaw (genitive)
- 3,952wechseltchanges, switches
- 3,953korrektcorrect
- 3,954die Strafepunishment, fine, penalty
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